Terry is diagnosed with a lesion that damaged the right ventral posterior medial nucleus of the thalamus. What symptoms would you expect Terry to show?   Question 8 options:   a)  Loss of pain, temperature, and mechanosensation from left face   b)  Loss of mechanosensation from full face

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